Saturday, April 24, 2010

Mr. Clyde Has Been Playing In My Newspaper

"He did some yard work and walked her dog and her monkey," recounts Cyril's son Peter.

"He would tie [the animals] together. The dog would run and the monkey would get tired, and it would wrap itself around a lamp post to stop it."

Carr repaid his kindness by giving Rodd a ceramic eagle bowl and totem pole, signed in her native alter ego, Klee Wyck.

She made a special Christmas card for Rodd, whom she called "Twinkie." It featured a watercolour of her monkey, Woo, in a pink dress, and came with a little poem: "That all good things/May come to you/Is the wish/ Of little Woo."

She also gave "Mr. Twinkie Rodd" a cheque for $2.50. But he never cashed it, because he felt she was too poor and couldn't afford to give him the money.

17 comments:

It is outrageously irresponsible to allow the DOG to walk the monkey. There is no way that ends well. Considering the cautionary tale of Son of Sam's neighbor's bulldog, I think we can all see where this sort of thing might lead...

That Vancouver Sun page was too big for my wii Wii, but I did get to the part about the cottage in Sidney on the coast of Vancouver Island. D00d must've been hurtin' fer cash - it's a good thing them artifacts are worth a few thousand dollars.